"The human heart is indeed like the darkness of ignorance, and even more like the fire of troubles burning to the end."
——Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "Rashomon"
It rarely happens that doubt overwhelms fear.
Fear should be one of the highest emotions, because with it, life will seek good luck and avoid disaster, and choose a more efficient way of survival.
The best way for life to trigger this emotion is to let it face death.
In comparison, doubt is a lower-level emotion. It is just a state naturally born in the growth process of life. On top of it, there are more advanced emotions such as "knowledge" and "desire" that can cover it.
pass or annex it.
But at this moment, doubt, a relatively low-level emotion, strangely completely overshadowed the high-level emotion of fear.
The Star Reavers really couldn't figure it out.
There is indeed a trap on the human side, but this is actually not beyond Orsho's expectation.
Appearing here for no reason without any means? They are not fools.
So although Orsho felt extremely uneasy after seeing the light blue light curtain unfolding, he was quickly controlled by his own heart. After all, he is still the top of the Ivy League, and Orsho also has a certain understanding of his own strength.
Absolutely confident.
It's just a matter of showing off. The humans may just be bluffing. In fact, they don't have any real fatal measures. They just want to fight to the death.
This is also Morulu's idea. In his opinion, humans who can only flee after losing the antimatter annihilation bomb are unlikely to come up with a stronger trick out of thin air.
As long as you stay with Orsho, you will have nothing to fear.
So after the light curtain unfolded, he immediately pressed closely against Orsho, fearing that the latter would be too far away from him.
Anyway, if the sky falls, the captain will hold it up, so what do you have to worry about?
The rest of the Star Raiders were a little panicked at first after seeing the Jian Cun unfold. After all, this was an attack from cunning humans.
But they relaxed a lot after discovering that Orsho was trapped like themselves, and some even began to analyze what the light curtain was.
Hmm, it seems to be a kind of restriction and confinement prop?
What do those humans want to do? Trap themselves to death? Or temporarily restrict our movements so that we can escape from this planet?
Many people have made judgments about Jian Cun, thinking that it is a confinement prop.
Then they realized something was wrong.
Hiss, that's not right... If this prop is to imprison us... then why are these humans themselves imprisoned?
Compared to the panic and confusion of the Star Raiders, the humans were completely confused and afraid.
Everything was going according to plan. They planned it well and completed it well.
The enemy was attracted to him as he wished, then stepped into the trap, and was finally imprisoned.
This plan is actually not complicated, and it is also very simple to implement. Just follow the steps.
It's not like Mikkelsen and the others haven't considered emergencies, such as the enemy standing too far away, launching a long-range attack and abandoning close combat. Even if the enemy doesn't take the bait, how can they provoke the enemy's words?
All thought out.
But they never thought about what they would do if they themselves fell into the shadow of Jian Cun.
Because they have given absolute trust to Dongfang Yanie. This trust is not based on his character, but on the powerful decision-making ability he has always displayed and the strength of the first person on earth.
But now?
"Dongfang Yanie! What the hell are you trying to do!" Amamiyagawa was the first to roar, "Didn't you say that the coverage area of that thing is one hundred cubic meters? Didn't you say that where we are standing is safe? Then this is
what happened?!"
"Mikkelsen! What's going on?" Gu Haoran also asked anxiously, "Did you get the distance wrong?"
"Absolutely not, I have tested it over and over again no less than twenty times!" Mikkelsen looked at the blue light around him and was confused. "To be on the safe side, I also moved our position back five meters, but this...
…”
"Facts don't lie. What's the point of testing again and again?" Amamiyagawa's eyes were bloodshot. "Look, are we inside or outside of that thing now?!"
Mikkelsen was speechless for a moment.
Amamiyagawa was right. Facts don't lie. No matter how much Mikkelsen insisted that he was not wrong, the fact was that they were also wrapped up in the trap.
"President, please let go of the inconvenience quickly. We will discuss it later!" Gu Haoran turned to look at Dongfang Yanie. This man had not said a word since just now. Even Amamiya Chuan was rude to him.
The roar fell on deaf ears.
Although it was said that we had finally "caught them all" in one fell swoop, it would be a pity to just touch them so close, but it would be better than being wiped out along with our entire army, right?
Although doing so will also arouse the other party's high vigilance, it does not mean that there is no chance at all.
However, Dongfang Yanie still didn't respond. His whole figure seemed to be frozen, and the silence was terrifying.
"President?" Seeing that he didn't move, Gu Haoran asked again.
This time, Dongfang Yanie finally turned his back to everyone and slowly spoke:
"it's useless."
"Us, and them..."
"Everyone must die."
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"Master, did you do this?" Gong Zhao pressed his hand on his heritage armband anxiously, but there was no response. "No matter what you want to do, you must think twice! I know that the master is not usually nice to you, but
He is your father after all!"
"Shh, Uncle Gong, don't make any noise." Dongfang Yi put a finger on his lips, "What I need now is not your doubts, but your loyalty."
"From now on, you have only one master, and that's me."
"And you should be happy, because you are about to become the strongest person on this planet."
"As for Dongfang Yani? I regard him as my father, what does he regard me as?"
"A dog, a shit-eating dog!"
Dongfang Yi's originally delicate face turned ferocious and extremely vicious, and the resentment overflowing from his pupils almost solidified.
"The descendants of the Dongfang family are all meat-eating wolves! But he! raised me! into a! shit-eating dog!"
"In order to gain his pitiful trust, I wag my tail in front of him every day, pretending to be a fool, and portray myself as a dandy and an idiot. What do you think my purpose is?"
"Isn't it just to make him completely relax his vigilance towards me? Isn't it just to make him think that I am nothing more than that? Isn't it just to make him think that he has complete control over me?"
"He thinks dogs are only worthy of eating shit, they can only eat shit!"
"But his habitual suppression of me for a long time and my constant obedience to him made him forget a very important fact..."
"No matter how much a dog can wag its tail, no matter how much it can lick its owner's feet, it's its father, its father's father... ten generations later, it's still a wolf!"
"So once a poop-eating dog tastes even a little bit of meat, it will never be willing to eat poop again in its life."
"It will become a hungry ghost watching the flesh and blood of its owner, and then one day in the future..."
"Swallow him alive, eat him alive, skin him alive!"
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"Jiutian, are you okay?" Wen Yunyun grabbed Jiutian's sleeve with some worry. She was the weakest among the people present, but it didn't mean that she didn't understand anything.
When the light blue light curtain spread unstoppably behind him, Jiutian's heart sank completely.
Although he didn't quite understand the reason, the consequences of such a thing could still be expected.
After all, if you put a few sheep and a lion in the same cage, it's pretty clear what will happen.
Especially after hearing the quarrel between Amamiyagawa and others, and Dongfang Yanie's attitude in the end, I almost had to say the words "an unexpected incident that cannot be handled".
So Jiutian didn't answer Wen Yunyun directly, and now he doesn't know what to say.
He gently held the girl's soft hand and just looked into her eyes.
"What's wrong with you, Jiutian? Are we... in trouble?" Wen Yunyun also looked at him. The two of them had never looked at each other so closely.
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as trouble." Jiutian finally smiled bitterly, "We are probably about to die, right?"
about to die?
Wen Yunyun understood these three words, but did not want to continue to explore the meaning behind this sentence.
Even based on the life span of ordinary people on earth, she and Jiutian are still very young, only in their twenties, which is the best age in life.
As for those who have become evolutionaries, even if they are just latent species, it is common for them to live hundreds of years. For them, their twenties are just the starting point of a long life. If they die like this, they will even be considered premature in the universe.
Of course, Wen Yunyun has not never thought about "death". After all, this is the ultimate proposition that all life will face, but she never thought that she would face death now, at this moment.
The girl was a little confused and at a loss for a moment.
Why?
There were endless questions in her mind.
In contrast, Jiutian's mood is the most stable among humans. Although he doesn't want to admit it, Rhine's previous predictions did give him a shot of prevention.
At many critical moments, Jiutian was actually waiting for the prophesied moment in his heart.
When facing Op, he thought that moment was coming, but it didn't; when facing Orsh, he thought that moment was coming, but it didn't either.
Until now, he actually felt "relieved" in his heart.
It turns out that Rhine's prophecy is true, will I really die?
but……
Amamiyagawa was still arguing emotionally, Mikkelsen was also arguing with him, Gu Haoran was trying to break up the fight, and Dongfang Yanie looked into the distance not knowing what he was thinking.
Jiutian tightened his grip on Wen Yunyun's hand.
But why involve her?
Unacceptable emotions welled up in his heart.
Originally, Wen Yunyun didn't have to follow him, but because of Dongfang Yanie's threat, she had to come as a hostage to blackmail Wen Xin.
She could have been safe.
If I die, I will die, but why should I take her with me?